Submitted Comment Name Darvin Bentlage Affiliation Campaign for Family Farmers and the Environment Subject Low Carbon Fuel Standard Message Low carbon fuel standard should not include factory farm gases. This will incentivize more corporate control of factory farms, harming family farmers, rural communities, our environment and climate, in Missouri, the Midwest and across the U.S. Will create more corporate consolidation in the U.S. livestock industry. Will commoditize methane production, which would fuel more methane producing practices. Create additional overproduction of commodities, pork and milk, increasing supply and further pushing down market prices paid to independent family farms driving them out of business. Pay foreign multinational meatpackers, like Chinese -owned Smithfield and Brazilian owned JBS, for their pollution. It would create incentives for the public ( taxpayers dollars through government subsidies) to fund anerobic digestors to capture factory farm gas. Using public funds for private greed with this false solution. Recent studies have shown that methane gas contributes to CO2 in the atmosphere when feedback losses and use from production to be comparable to coal use. Please consider the unintended negative consequences of California's policies on Americans throughout the U.S. Thank You File Upload (i.e., Attachments): N/A
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